“Rashid and Rosetta,” Saturday, April 18 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. at the Creole Gallery,
1218 Turner St., Lansing
Professor Salah Hassan, Department of English, Michigan State University, will examine the persistent hold of classical Egypt, the Egypt of King Tut, on the western Imagination. The mystery of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, hieroglyphs, and the Sphinx continue to fascinate. Egyptology and Egyptomania still produce fantasies of exploration and adventure. 2008-09 Public Humanities Fellow, Salah D. Hassan, will present a multimedia talk focused on the history of the Rosetta Stone, the famous Egyptian archeological artifact that played a central role in cracking the code of the hieroglyphs. He will also provide an overview and examples from a collective internet art project inspired by the history of the Rosetta Stone. For further information, please call the Public Humanities Collaborative at 517/432-3910 or go to:
http://phc.msu.edu/uploads/hassan.pdf
Directions to the Creole Gallery can be found at:
http://www.lansing.com/creolegallery/directions.html
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